The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-03

| more, his business picked up so that he
paid large sum on account all arotind
among his creditors. They all said
''Elisha Is doing it for him." He painted
and refurbished the old Snow house. lie
ran slightly into debt in doing it, but his
girls had some new clothes sent them
from New York lie donned new suit
of broad-cloth, and-he was happy. lie
was on his feet. Slayton was utterly
nonplussed. In vain the willy practitioner
went about spreading doubts as to Elisha's
having any money whatever. "Why don't
he buy that organl" he kept saying, until
people began to wonder why indeed.
As soon as the rumor spread about that
Elisha was childless and that he intended
leaving his money in equal shares to his
six nieces, they went off literally like hot
cakes. Mawley junior, who really loved
the girl, married Bessie, and then they
were all married off in patches of two,
until the youngest refused to marry at all,
saying, with her finger at her lip, 'she
preferred to stay with her father"
In one year all this happened. Amasa
Snow was now successful man-his
debts paid and practice increasing. One
day the rumor reached him-why had not
Elisha paid for that organl
lie went to Elisha. 1T is time" he
said, 'for you to disappear"
'I'm very contented here" protested
Elisha, "reading the newspapers and sit
ting in the hotel 1t agrees with me.
don't want to disappear"
lie liked the adulation extended to
him on the ground that he was million
airc. He played the easy, well-fed, rich
plutocrat revisiting his New England
home to perfection. His acting was con-
summate, because it was nature itself,
without mirror being held up to it. He
had Just that amount of narrowness, of
close-tistedness, of sagacious doubt as to
the motives of men who approached him
with schemes for investment; he acted
the millionaire to perfection, and he
never overdid it.
"Amasa, 1 can't CO." he said "They
think I'm such a good man to make
money. They have actually brought
money to me to make more for them.
Yes, I've received over fifty thousand
dollars for investment within the last
month"
"Great Scottw exclaimed Amasa.
"This is dreadful! l see State prison
yaWnlnS before us j.
"It's Just what the Grand American
Spread-eagle Mine needs" said Elisha,
swelling himself out-"a little money
"Well, take the money and go, then
goi l will have nothing to do with this
--nothingw
Amasa was very angry. He resolved
to be responsible for his brother no long
er. He went to his daughters, all bu
one now well married and in hlppy, well
to-do homes. 'Your uncle and | havt
had a row." he said ''IIe is going bacl
to California"
And the organ, the new library, tn,
gymnasium
"Well, he is mad about something
He says the town has sighted him. Bu
one thing must be understood, whateve
he does-1 wash my hands of him for
ever!n
Elisha did leave few days after. II
took away about hundred Thousand
: dollars of widows and orphans funds
t went tp San Francisco, put his money int
various enterprises, paid thS beneficiaric
| eight per cent. interest, was honest a
the day and died few years ago wort
great deal o. m2rey. which he left
share anu SntlG dllhc, 10 MS DTOGsE'I > ~
girls, and he left thousand dollars fc
the new organ.
Amasa still lives-a fairly well-tO-d
t old country lawyer-slightly in debt still
in East Chesterville. But he is tn
adorcd grandpapa of twelve of the dear
est little grandchildren, and he oftcI
says to them, benignly: "Children, hav
t put all-and myself-on our feet. Yes
but had to tell your mother an awfu
G lie?"
"What was the lie, grandpopperN
81 had to say the LATEST man alive
, your granduncle, children had to sa
t the penniless old rascal-your grand
- fathers brother, my dears, who ha
robbed me of all had in one of his mines
; the Great American Spreadeagle Col
$ and Silver-I had to say, and stan to il
= that he was one of the biggest millionaire
a on the Pacific coast But that lie ha
put us all on our feet. ."-Riehard II. Ro
a Ia Harper'S Weekly.